Yorrys' absence delays gambling trial<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Seven people, including an executive of a
\nshadowy, powerful youth organization, were arraigned at the West
\nJakarta District Court yesterday in connection with gambling.<\/p>\n
Yorrys Raweyai, the day-to-day chairman of Pemuda Pancasila,
\nwas supposed to have been tried along with six other defendants
\non charges of organizing and playing rummy and macok at a
\nstorehouse in West Jakarta in July, but didn't show up in court
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
The defendants were tried in two separate trials.<\/p>\n
Yorrys, who was tried along with Sundoro Tan, Budianto and
\nHadi Mustapa -- all gamblers -- was tried in a separate trial,
\nwhile three other persons accused of organizing the gambling were
\ntried in another trial.<\/p>\n
\"He probably has not received the subpoena,\" said Ruhut
\nSitompul, the lawyer of Yorrys.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge Ismail Sebayang adjourned the trial of Yorrys
\nand three other defendants until Monday, asking prosecutor Noor
\nSaid to produce Yorrys in the next trial. Yorrys had been
\nreleased on bail shortly after his arrest.<\/p>\n
Yorrys was arrested along with six other defendants on July
\n20, at a gambling den at Jl. Daan Mogot 125, West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
During the raid, police also confiscated Rp 1,572,000
\n(US$724.4) in cash, cards and other gambling paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
The arrest of Yorrys, which stirred controversy, prompted
\nYapto Suryosumarno, the number-one person of Pemuda Pancasila, to
\nallege that it was politically motivated, a charge denied by
\nJakarta Military Commander Maj. Gen. Hendropriyono.<\/p>\n
Pemuda Pancasila is affiliated to the ruling Golkar group.<\/p>\n
In a separate trial, prosecutor Noor Said accused defendant
\nAbidin, 52, Bok Tjik Lim alias Halim Harto, 45, and Ng A Tjan
\nalias Herman Chandra, 64, of organizing the gambling.<\/p>\n
Said said that under the law gambling is illegal.<\/p>\n
The court adjourned the trial until next Monday to allow the
\ndefendants' lawyers, who comprise of Tommy Sihotang, Ratih Puspa
\nNusanti as well as Sitompul, to prepare a preliminary defense
\nstatement.<\/p>\n
Under the law a gambling organizer can be punished to a
\nmaximum of four years imprisonment or fined Rp 10 million, while
\na gambler, if convicted, can be sentenced to a maximum of 10
\nyears jail or a Rp 25 million fine.<\/p>\n
All of the six defendants are Indonesian citizens of Chinese-
\ndescent.<\/p>\n
Yorrys himself is an Indonesian of mixed Chinese-Irian origin,
\nan ethnic group in Indonesia's eastern most province of Irian
\nJaya which is popularly known as Serui Chinese.<\/p>\n
Yorrys is known as an influential figure in Pemuda Pancasila,
\na shadowy youth organization whose tentacles reportedly reach
\ninto labor, prostitution, loan sharking, transportation and
\nprotection rackets.(09)<\/p>",
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